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Author here. The title is intentionally vague because I cover very different use cases (searching and language learning). Recently, I talked to many people in meatspace about these…

Cool stuff! Make sure to also check: https://sm64coopdx.com Recently we are having tons of fun with this with a couple of friends.

We do it like this at GitLab and it's very effective: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/leadership/1-1/

Somewhat related: if somebody is interested in King's story in more depth, I can really recommend Jonathan Eig's book from 2023, titled "King: A Life". Amongst many other resources…

At work, I use the Inbox Zero strategy combined with Gmail's keyboard shortcuts. It's really powerful, a total game changer. The nicest thing for me is that I can easily keep track…

This is exactly the kind of content I visit HN for. Thank you!

I don't really know what you mean by that. Yes, the salaries are tied to locations [1]. But I get compensated well above the average compared to doing the same job at other compani…

If you can be a manager of one [1], then absolutely, yes. If not, then I can imagine it being really frustrating a lot of times. Based on my past work experience, working at GitLab…

Answering the title: like we do at GitLab. https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/culture/all-rem...

While the thing about unions is generally true in the European Union, universally it isn't. Take Hungary (where I am from) as an example. Trade unions there are practically non-exi…

Not much. Work as an employee until you build out a network big enough to rely on to get contracting jobs. It's faster if you work in professional services or technical sales roles…

Ex-Microsoft, current GitLab employee here. The way you describe using Microsoft's tools in your company is pretty much how things worked at Microsoft while I was there 3 years ago…

GitLab employee here. This page of our handbook can be a good starting point to build your own: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/handbook...

GitLab employee here. Can confirm, it works exactly as advertised to the outside world.

My path was: engineer -> consultant -> solutions architect. All at different companies. I think it's more about character/attitude, rathen than only experience.

I am happy to help! I wish you good health! :)

Yes, I have multiple scans of a semi-herniated (not fully herniated, but thinned and a bit bulging) disc in the lower end of my spine, but it's far from being in the state of needi…

I drastically reduced the amount fat I eat, but I did that to accommodate my partner's new diet, not entirely voluntarily. :)

I see now! Sorry, it was way too early in the morning. I shouldn't comment before coffee... :)

Understood! As I noted in my comment, the book I recommend also stresses the importance of the fact that most chronic back pain is "all inside yor head" and tries to give some reli…

For my fellow chronic lower back painers out there: over the course of many years I tried many things (always staying in the confines of modern medicine). There's certainly no magi…

Restic is a great piece of software. I use it for more than two years now to do encrypted backups of my home server into Backblaze B2. Took minutes to set up with a couple of lines…

For me, it's definitely Blazor: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor Initial load times could be still better (.NET 6 should improve that) and Visual Studio's R…

I work with Azure and Visual Studio 2019 is still the best tool for that.